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T was the Hap of a very Honet Man to be the Father of a Contentious Brood of Children. He call'd for a Rod, and bad ‘em Take it, and Try One after Another with All their Force, if they could Break it. They Try'd, and could not. Well (ays he) Unbind it now, and take Every Twig of it apart, and ee what you can do That Way. They Did o, and with Great Eae, by One and One, they napt it all to pieces. This (ays he) is the, True Emblem of Your Condition. Keep Together and Y'are Safe, Divide, and Y'are Undone.

S a Hore and an Ae were upon the Way together, the Ae cryed out to his Companion, to Eae him, of his Burden, though never o little, he hould fall down Dead ele. The Hore would not; and o his Fellow-Servant unk under his Load. The Mater, upon This, had the Ae Flay’d, and laid